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Israeli gamma pulse ‘could send Iran back to Stone Age’

ISRAEL could cripple Iran’s power grid with electromagnetic pulses as part of
a concerted attack to halt the Islamic republic’s military nuclear
programme, it was claimed last week.

The possible use of such a weapon to send Iran “back to the Stone Age” has
been raised in several quarters as a debate rages among Israel’s politicians
about whether a swift strike should be launched to stop Iran developing
nuclear weapons.

According to Bill Gertz, a veteran American defence specialist and editor of
The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website, US intelligence agencies
have reported “growing concerns that Israel will conduct a strike on Iran
using a high-altitude nuclear burst aimed at disrupting all electronics in
the country”.

The technology behind EMP, which is regarded as non-lethal, has been known for
decades. An electromagnetic pulse is an intense burst of gamma energy that
reacts with the Earth’s magnetic field to produce